A bill has come into force in the state of California which specifies that bitcoin is not under any ban of issuance or circulation and, therefore, is legal for payments and transactions. The comments section of the bill clarifies what bitcoin is and how it operates.

Cody Wilson, a candidate for the Bitcoin Foundation Board Election in 2015, has launched a campaign to dismantle the Foundation if elected. Wilson claims the Foundation should be “destroyed” for collaborating with authorities instead of promoting the revolutionary concepts of technological libertarianism.

According to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index, the price of bitcoin has fallen to around $300 in the first exchange rate shift of 2015. The price of bitcoin fell by about $15 on January 3, reaching a low of $297.87.

99% of Mt Gox bitcoins went missing through internal manipulation, not due to an external cyber attack, a Japanese newspaper reports. The newspaper cites an insider source and the Metropolitan Police Department.

The anniversary of the bitcoin boom of 2013 has seen the publication of many articles on the topic. In one of them, the MONEY portal of The Time Inc. observes that those who predicted fast growth for bitcoin were wrong.